Just about 100 years ago, Mrs. Russell Sage spent a tidy sum of money building a library for the Village of Sag Harbor and environs. She even stocked the new library with books and other materials that formed its early lending and reference collections. She was a believer in using the best materials and artisans [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Creating a Sustainable and Resilient Community
The creator of this blog, Eric Cohen, is my husband and he has generously told me I can publish things here as often as I want. Previously I have only taken him up on that offer for one cutesy article riffing on the name Sag Hampton. Now, however, I find that I have many things [...]
Transportation Forum Stays On Track
I’m not often surprised by politicians. Well, let me rephrase that, I’m often surprised by politicians’ venality, but much less often by their willingness to take a risk. So, I have to admit that I was taken completely by surprise when, at the Transportation Forum sponsored by New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, there was [...]
Sag Hampton moves to WordPress
After almost three years of running Sag Hampton on the Blogware platfrom, I felt it was time to move on to something a bit more flexible and with a brighter future. Blogware has not been updated in some time, and appears as if it may be a dead end in terms of features. WordPress, on [...]
The Five Top Problems Facing Sag Hampton
Over Development / Inappropriate Development Simply put, over development is the poison that will kill the golden goose. As we all know, people love this area because of its natural beauty, open vistas, fresh air, and rural feel. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that suburban sprawl, McMansion ghettos, charmless villages filled with [...]
